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100 1  Perry, Douglas,|d1968- 
245 14 The Girls of Murder City|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /
       |cDouglas Perry. 
246 1  |iContainer title:|aGirls of Murder City: fame, lust, and 
       the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2010. 
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511 1  Read by Peter Berkrot. 
520    Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men 
       turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than 
       a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the 
       world. But two murders that spring were special-worthy of 
       celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be 
       playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, 
       the city's "hanging paper." Newspaperwomen were supposed 
       to write about clubs, cooking, and clothes, but the 
       intrepid Miss Watkins, a minister's daughter from a small 
       town, zeroed in on murderers instead. Looking for subjects
       to turn into a play, she would make "Stylish Belva" 
       Gaertner and "Beautiful Beulah" Annan-both of whom had 
       brazenly shot down their lovers-the talk of the town. Love
       -struck men sent flowers to the jail, and newly 
       emancipated women sent impassioned letters to the 
       newspapers. Soon more than a dozen women preened and 
       strutted on "Murderesses' Row" as they awaited trial, 
       desperate for the same attention that was being lavished 
       on Maurine Watkins's favorites. In the tradition of Erik 
       Larson's The Devil in the White City and Karen Abbott's 
       Sin in the Second City, Douglas Perry vividly captures 
       Jazz Age Chicago and the sensationalized circus atmosphere
       that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal. 
       Fueled by rich period detail and enlivened by a cast of 
       characters who seemed destined for the stage, The Girls of
       Murder City is crackling social history that 
       simultaneously presents the freewheeling spirit of the age
       and its sober repercussions. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Women murderers|zIllinois|zChicago|xHistory. 
650  0 Murder|zIllinois|zChicago|xHistory. 
651  0 Chicago (Ill.)|xHistory. 
700 1  Berkrot, Peter. 
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